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Everything we see hides something else, and we always want to see what is hidden behind what is visible: at Lev Povzner's exhibition "Field of Miracles" at the Alina Pinsky Gallery, one cannot help recalling Magritte's textbook phrase
Everything we see hides something else, and we always want to see what is hidden behind what is visible: at Lev Povzner's exhibition "Field of Miracles" at the Alina Pinsky Gallery, one cannot help recalling Magritte's textbook phrase. Magritte, whom Lev Alexandrovich wittily parodies
Cinema · Paris · People
Alice Guy-Blaché, Gaumont Secretary and the First Woman Fiction Film Director
"I am afraid you are too young, Mademoiselle." "Never mind, that will pass." So Alice Guy-Blaché recalled her engagement as a secretary at the Gaumont company, a post that made her the first woman in history to direct a fiction film. Between 1896 and 1920
NB! · Monarchies · Observations · Humour
New official portrait of King Charles III, his appearance, makeup and retouching
In his new official portrait, King Charles III looks rather poorly. And the make-up and retouching have let the side down
NB! · Archaeology · Geography · Humour
Communication with space is unavailable, since the pyramids have shifted 4 km south of their original site since construction because of the movement of the earth's crust
Communication with space is unavailable, since the pyramids have shifted 4 km south of their original site since construction because of the movement of the earth's crust. And that is without taking into account the drift of the Earth's and the Sun's orbits
NB! · Art · Paris
The Alley in the Luxembourg Gardens, Vincent van Gogh, 1886
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Coloured pencil drawing of tiny figures with strands of beads against a starry sky
Coming Up · Art
Shift and Set Projects galleries present surrealist graphic art at Gostiny Dvor
Shift Gallery, together with Set Projects Gallery, is holding an exhibition of surrealist graphic art. It is said that surrealism as such no longer exists in our day, but Dasha Kuznetsova and her colleagues recall the surrealist manifesto and refute the claim by showing splendid, mostly young, artists who create
NB! · Art · Moscow
Masha Kolosovskaya's Ceramics at the Lobby Café in Gostiny Dvor
NB! · Coming Up · Moscow · Education
The "Education and Career" Exhibition at the Gostiny Dvor
The "Education and Career" exhibition at the Gostiny Dvor. Entrance through Entrance 4
Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
There are houses that stand alone, like a mushroom in a clearing; there are houses with enough space around them for windows and a view on every side, but if something new is built nearby, the windows end up facing a neighbour's wall or else…
There are houses with blind side walls from the very start: it was planned from the outset that they would stand hard against other buildings, on one side or on both. Even when the built-up area was wooden and low-rise, there were many such houses: a thick brick
Art · Moscow · Heritage · Education
Restoration of the Krupskaya monument on Sretensky Boulevard continues in Moscow
In Moscow, the restoration of the Krupskaya monument on Sretensky Boulevard continues. Unveiled in 1976, the monument, the work of the husband-and-wife sculptors Ekaterina (Alekseyeva) and Alexander Belashov, was the first monument dedicated to an individual woman in Moscow. The sculpture portrays Krupskaya as a young revolutionary. Yet